It's Gardening Time!

I love to gardern! I love the fact that we are able to follow the prophet. I love the fact that it helps us live more providently. I love growing beautiful green lush garden plants. I love createing something wonderful out of brown dirt. This year is no exception, we are again planting a garden. I eagerly await for the sun to warm the earth so I can play in the soil.
I began in February by starting my tomato, peppers and flower seeds indoors. Delaney and Cailin helped me get the planting trays ready by filling them with dirt and then planting the seeds.

I keep them under grow lights.....actually, this year, I've kept them under the wrong type of light so they aren't growing so well. However, that minor detail has been corrected, so the plants should flourish and will be ready to plant outside in about a month.

This year we are extending our harvest options; we planted raspberries, black raspberries, and blue berry bushes. We also bought some dwarf fruit trees--peach, cherry, and pear. Yum, I know it will take a few years till we get a harvest from them, but till then I'll dream of fresh sweet fruit. Connor helped plant the trees one afternoon, he greatly loved the experience as he got more mud on him than I thought humanly possible. Unfortuately I didn't get a picture of him in all his muddy glory.

Barry has tilling helpers....Liam and Pete followed him as he went back and forth, back and forth till the ground for broccoli, onions and summer vegetables.

I love to work the soil, making the lumpy dirt smooth and ready to plant, however, I'm not as thrilled with the actually planting of seeds....weird, I know. Yet the chore is more fun with the help of my little garderner.

Cailin and Connor, both want to plant a garden of their own, here she is planting zinna seeds.
She also added sugar snap peas, lettuce, spinach and carrots in her portion of the grow box.

Cailin loves flowers, I just need to educate her on what a sutiable flower is to grow. No, dandylions aren't flowers cultivate in our garden.

Although I think she much perfers her cat America to any flower, any day.